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Remembering maternal bodies : melancholy in Latina and Latin American women's writing /

Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the wide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trigo, Benigno
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:New concepts in Latino American cultures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Mother Tongue * Transformative Witnessing * Maternal Jouissance * Labile Time * Memoirs for the Abject * Accidents of Chicana Feminisms * Body, Language and Memory.
  • Transformative witnessing: Clarice Lispector's dark ties
  • Maternal jouissance: Elena Garro's Recuerdos
  • The mother tongue: Rosario Ferré's ec-centric writing
  • Accidents of chicana feminisms: Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Cherríe Moraga
  • Memoirs for the abject: Irene Vilar's Memoria
  • From revenge to redemption: Julia Alvarez's Open secrets.